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Leptosiphon rosaceus Greene is the well-known Gilia andro- 

 sacea var. rosacea Gray, of the sand hills of San Francisco. 



Leptosiphon acicularis Greene is the yellow -flowered form of 

 Gilia micrantha. Mr. Greene's reasons as given by himself for 

 neglecting the older names are not very convincing. His free 

 use of the word ' ' invariably ' ' is calculated to alarm any one who 

 knows of the almost influite variety of forms belonging to G. 

 a7idrosacea and G. micrantha, for the consequences when Mr. 

 Greene shall have been made acquainted with a score or two of 

 them. 



Hesperochiron ciliatus Greene is H. puuiilus, Porter. 



Phacelia scabrella Greene is P. distans Benth. 



Phacelia Arthuri Qr&^ne was identified by Mr. Congdon*with 

 P. platyloba Gray. 



Phacelia suaveolens Greene. This was described as having 

 " 4-seeded capsules," and the author in the note under the spe- 

 cific character says:t "It is another of those species which 

 eliminate the boundaries of subgenera or sections; for it com- 

 bines the capsule and seed of Huphacelia with the narrow elon- 

 gated corolla of Microgenetes." By a fruiting fragment kindly 

 placed at the writer's disposal by Mr. Greene it is found to 

 belong to Eutoca. The fragment contained a number of empty 

 capsules, and the four still retaining their seeds held eight, 

 six, three, and two respectively, and examination of the empty 

 capsules showed in the larger ones on each half-placenta the 

 points of attachment of six or eight seeds. The author was 

 therefore probably misled by the depauperate upper capsules. 

 The fragment bore neither leaf nor flower, but the published 

 character with the notes here given make it probable that it is 

 P. brachyloba Gray, which was described from Monterey and 

 not known farther north until last year, when it was found in 

 great abundance on Tamalpais beyond the second summit. 



Phacelia riigulosa & P. lencantha IvCmmon in herb., Pitt, i, 175. 

 These are respectively strict synonyms of/', affinis & P. Orcuttiana 

 Gray, Supp. Syn. Fl. ii, part i. This is one of the instances 

 which serves to show that there are two sides to the question of 



*Zoe ii, 125. 

 t Pitt, i, 223. 



